I always think my job is to stay out of the way of my own pictures. The viewer should be blissfully unaware of the photographer’s presence in the work.

If the composition is too considered, then the viewer may be aware of a degree of contrivance in the work. If the composition is not considered enough, then the work may lack focus or clear intention.

Same for editing: if the work is over ‘processed’ in look, then a feeling of a need to impress, or a lack of believability may exist, and linger, no matter how much one tries to adapt to the work.

In either of these cases, the viewer is aware of the photographer lurking in the background. Because they can feel poor judgement in the work.

To be invisible whilst also conveying a sense of style in one’s work is perhaps the hardest thing to pull off. Both feel as if they are mutually exclusive. And yet both are required.

It reminds me that one must be part of their own work, but at the same time be outside of it.

Inside of it, and yet outside of it. Both existing at the same time.